Personal information | |||
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Full name | Clare Elizabeth Taylor | ||
Date of birth | 22 May 1965 | ||
Place of birth | Huddersfield, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
Playing position | Sweeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Bronte | |||
Liverpool Ladies | |||
National team | |||
1990– | England | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Full name | Clare Elizabeth Taylor | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Huddersfield, England |
22 May 1965 |||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||
International information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Test debut (cap 18) | 17 November 1995 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 22 August 2003 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 53) | 5 December 1988 v Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 30 August 2005 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 February 2011
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Clare Elizabeth Taylor MBE (born 22 May 1965) is an English sportswoman, the first woman to have played on a World Cup team in both cricket and football. She represented England at both cricket, as a member of the winning World Cup cricket team in 1993, and football (World Cup 1995). She was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2000 for her services to women’s sport. Taylor attended Moor End High School and still has her name on the athletics records board.
Taylor began playing at age 11 and after answering a Women's Football Association advert in Shoot magazine, started playing for Bronte Ladies. Her England debut came in a 2-0 defeat to Germany in Bochum on 16 December 1990. When Bronte were relegated Taylor moved to Knowsley United, who became Liverpool Ladies shortly after losing the FA Women's Cup final to Doncaster Belles in 1994. Taylor had joined Knowsley United in preference to the dominant Doncaster Belles because she wanted the challenge of playing for a developing club.
Taylor's Liverpool were also beaten in the following two season's FA Cup finals, by Arsenal and Croydon respectively. In 1993 Taylor had played for Knowsley United in the FA Women's Premier League Cup final at Wembley and for England women's cricket team in the World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground.